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A New 'Definition' For Health Care Reform
Click here for a printer-friendly version of this articleThe principal divide in American health care policy is over what to do about rapidly rising costs. On one side are those who believe the...
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ObamaCare's Heavy Toll on Middle Class Americans
President Obama likes to say his campaign is about building up the middle class, but his signature initiative in office — ObamaCare — will pile thousands of dollars in new taxes and higher health costs...
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The End of Obamacare: Just the Beginning of Better Health Care
The Obama administration detected faint signs of a pulse last week in its dysfunctional health benefits exchange web site. But the parade of dismal failures, broken promises, and unsuspecting victims...
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Obamacare—One; Rule of Law—Zero
U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman upheld yesterday in Halbig, et al., v. Sebelius, et al an Internal Revenue Service rule that authorized the payment of premium assistance tax credits in...
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Employer Health Plan Sponsors: Running Harder, to Stay in Place
Teaser: In the four years since passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we have heard a wide range of speculative predictions about how private employers sponsoring health coverage would respond....
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Beyond the Courthouse Countdown for Federal Health Exchanges
Teaser: The last round of oral argument in the most serious legal challenge to Obamacare’s insurance coverage subsidies ended over three months ago. Now the courthouse watch for a final ruling in the...
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“Just Win, Baby” The Politics of Obamacare
Teaser: A pair of federal appellate court decisions sent Obamacare backers cycling through at least the first three stages of grief (anger, denial, and bargaining) over the likelihood of further...
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A Post-King Bridge to Somewhere Better
Teaser: As we approach oral argument this week at the Supreme Court in the King v. Burwell case, a series of policy reversals is presumed to immediately produce a devastating cascade of premium spikes,...
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Rubio’s Health Plan Is a Fresh Breeze
Teaser: As the starting gate loads for the large field of 2016 presidential candidates in the Republican party, there has not been much differentiation thus far in what the leading contenders have said...
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The “Blurred Lines” of Trump’s Health Plan (He Knows You Want It)
When pressed during last Thursday night’s campaign debate in Houston for details of his proposed plans for replacing Obamacare after it is repealed, presidential candidate Donald Trump (?-NY) once...
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Trump’s Health Policy Karaoke
Teaser: The Trump healthcare plan resembles the efforts of a foreign student trying to learn quickly health policy as a second language. Or perhaps a co-worker getting up on the late-night stage to lip...
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